Week in Review 14/10/10

Last week people that went to Old Cairo told me that they went to a church and that they went to a mosque and a synangogue and that they had to take notes. In inquiry we are learning about traditions and I learnt about ramadan and christmas and bullfighting.In english we were doing poems about issues in the world mine was pollution and after we finished we had to say our poem out loud to every one in the class.

Thanks,
KM

Week in Review for 7/10/10

This week in English we were learning about issue poetry.We had to write three poems if for example someone wanted to do an acrostic poem you would have to write 8 letters or more.

This week in math we have experienced many fun math games that include Multiplication , percentage , decimals , division and fractions.It was also optional that we could use the textbook or this wonderful math website called : http://mathletics.com/ this website has lots of educational assignements that we have been assigned by our class teacher.There are also lots of exciting games , It also has LIVE mathletics which is a competition between us and anyone in any school around the world. This is fun because we get to know other students difficulties and different levels and they get to know ours without any contact.

In inquiry we are still learning about cultures and traditions and we are summarising the pieces of information that we have collected in week 3 and 4.

Thanks H

Week in Review for 30/9/10

In math we were learning about long division and we went past remainders. Mr Lowe told that there are many ways to get answers in division or basically in every sums like: addition, subraction, division and multiplication. We have a website called Mathletics and our teacher gives us 9 or 10 tasks to practice on. In our inquiry we have new system called Epals it means we can ask questions and answer other students somewhere in world about traditions and cultures and we have two parteners one in our school in Year 6 and one in somewhere in world. In English, we had to write poems and we went down to the library and recorded one of our best poems that we wrote and we had homework about poems and they were called webquests and they was fun I mean very fun. In Guided Reading our teacher was Mrs L and Mrs H. We were reading different books from each other. Our english teacher is sometimes Mr Lowe and sometimes Mrs H. when we are doing with Mr Lowe we learn about poems but if we are doing with Mrs H we are reading a book a called Call of the Shelkie.

Thanks for the big effort J!

Week in Review for 23/9/10

Lets start with math , this week we concentrated more on multiplication and division and we used something called (BODMAS).

e.g the sum is (4 x 2) + 5 - 3
first you have to write bodmas vertically
then you have to look at the part in brackets e.g (4 x 2)
then do the sum and follow the bodmas rules .
I am going to give an example of a sum i would get.

e.g :
( 7 x 4 ) divided by 2 + 3 - 5
B  7 x 4 = 28
O --------------
D  28 divided by 2 = 14
M we already did the multiplication sum
A  14 + 3 = 17
S  17 - 5 = 12

Bracket  Always do the part in the brackets first
O---------------------------------------------
Division - do the division and join the answer to the first one
Multiplication - do the multiplication sum and join the answer to the answer in the sum before it
Addition - do the addition sum and join the answer to the answer in the sum before it
Subtraction - do the subtraction sum and join it to the last answer to make the total


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In english we were doing poetry , every different kind of poetry free verse , diamante and many more.
we had to write more than 7 poems for homework and then Mr .lowe told us to practice saying them so that we could record them with no hesitation. Some people might be asking why we are recording them. We are recording them so the poems could be spread on the internet.
most of us are embarrassed but we'll get over it soon.
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in music we are looking at an african song.But before that we were looking at the song called under the sea we had to sing it to the beat and keep up the tune.Then we played this very nice game that has something to do with croches and cuavers every time miss lala pointed at us we had to clap our name in the correct musical beats.
i enjoyed this week and i hope others did too.
Thanks Z!

Week in Review for 16/9/10

In Maths we learned about brackets. Mr L taught us an easy way to solve a sum. It's called Bodmas. B stands for brackets, O stands for order, D stands for division, M stands for multiplication, A stands for addition and S stands for subtraction. In Music we learned where the notes go. We also chanced a song.Ms Lala told us the names of the notes. In swimming we are learning front crawl. At the end of the lesson we had freetime. In French we are learning about the world.We learned how to say the continents in French. In English we are learning about Poems.We have learned a lot about poems.We learned about acrostic poems and we learned how to write poems. In Inquiry we are learning about traditions and culters. We are researching about teraditions and cultures from three countries. It's very interesting. We had a great week.

Great Job F!

Week in Review for 9/9/10

This week we learned about lots of things. In math we learned about inverse operations rounding decimals, rounding and ordering decimals. In rounding decimals what we learned was obviously rounding decimals and it depends on the number whether to round up or down and I learned a new stratagy to find out what would the number be if I was rounding up what would be in between.When we were doing inverse operations today we well I learned that there can be patterns in inverse operations and that (I already knew this but other people might have not known) that the opposite of - is +and the opposite of x is division. Finally we learned about rounding and ordering decmials I don't remember exactly what we did but also obviously we learned about rounding and ordering decimals. In Inquiry each one of us did a title page about cultures, religions and so on. On my title page I put the flag, a cross, the muslim sign and all my writing was in a bubbly font. In P.E. we were focasing on playground games so we did hopscotch and in swimming some people well most of our class were disapionted because everyone was put in a lower or two lower groups. Its going to be a surprise for me (when I get better) to know what group I'm going to be in. I think that this year will be a awesome year and by the end of it we will be computer experts.

Thanks M!

Meet the Teacher Evening - 7th September from 17:00 - 18:00

Parents of pupils in 6L are invited to attend the "Meet the Teacher" evening planned for this Tuesday evening from 5pm to 6pm. There will be two sessions of 30 minutes each. Session one will begin at 5pm and session 2 will begin at 5:30pm.

I look forward to seeing you there!

Regards,
Mr. L

Welcome!

Welcome back to Year6L, a connected classroom. I hope that our visitors will enjoy reading the children's work over the coming months and you will help us out by commenting on the work and messages you read here.

You can also visit our class wiki: year-6-with-mr-lowe.wikispaces.com

We will begin reflecting on our work for the week beginning this coming Thursday (10th September).

Thanks for visiting and please visit often!

Regards,
Mr. L

Have a Great Summer and We Hope to See You Back Here on September 2nd!

Well, we have reached the end of what has been an eventful, eciting year. The children and I would like to thank our visitors for their time and helpful comments. I would like to wish the class every success in Year 7 and an invitation to them to visit us next year in person and online.
Thank you, and please visit us again when we return in September!

Week in review for 17/06/10

Mathematics: This week in math we have been learning about area which is basically length X width, eg. so if it's a square and it's length is seven and it's width is also seven then you multiply seven by seven. The answer is always in squared centimetres or meters or what ever you are using.

English: This week in English we have been writing a play script and we had to record ourselves while we were speaking because people will listen to it but there wont be any pictures so that it would be like the old plays in the 1950's which were recorded on the radio.

Inquiry: This week in Inquiry we just started a new topic called Taking Care Of Our Selves, during this topic we learnt about the human body and how our body grows as we get older. 

Sport's day: Last week we had sport's day. In sport's day we played a lot of games and races, in the end Mr. Sargent had to count all the points which each house earned from each game they played, in the end Air won the sport's day.
Thanks B!

Week in Review for 10/06/10

Sports day was last week on Wednesday. Sports Day is about all the House teams, our teams are Air, Water, Earth and Fire; I am in Air which won 4 times in a row. There are house captains, the house captains are 1 boy and 1 girl for each house. 

Sports day was fun for everyone. We did Races, Javelin, Slingshot, Basketball shootout, Long jump and Water Race. When players are tired they can have a rest under the shaded area with a water break. Finals are played at the end of the Sports day which includes only races. I reached the final in the Race but unfortunately I came 2nd. Guess who came first?

At the end of sports day Mr. Sergent the judge counted the points and added them up. The team with the higher house points wins. There also some certificates given for the best boy and best girl in the running finals, Slingshot, Javelin and Long jump.

Don't worry Primary because in Secondary too there is a Sports Day.

Thanks A!

Pupil Led Conferences - Update

Hi Everyone,
This is to let you know that the Pupil Led Conference day tomorrow IS a uniform day. You must wear your uniform during the conference.
Thanks!
Mr. L

Theatre Trip & Sports Day

Theatre Trip Latest Information:
Please remember that we will be wearing our school uniforms to the theatre.

Sports Day Latest Information:
You must wear your uniform when you arrive at school in the morning.
You will be given time to change into your team colours in the afternoon.
Wear a hat
Wear sunblock
Bring water


Have a great day!

Week in Review for 20/05/10

Over the past week in English, we have finished writing our final drafts and typing them up, we are now up to choosing design templates for our newspapers with Mr. Lowes' assistance.
Also we have been writing scripts for our yr6 assembly plays with a strict deadline! each group gets at maximum a 5 minute play performing a year stage like an important event in nursery or reception, yr 1, yr2, yr3...., there is also a play for everyone.

Maths: During maths we have been brushing up on prime numbers and we are also doing Christian Goldbachs' (he lived between the 1690s' and the 1760s') theory (conjecture), he was a maths professor at the Russian Imperial Academy. His theory is that "Every integer can be written as the sum two primes, can also be written as the sum of as many primes as one wishes, until all terms are units."
He also wrote a second theory "every integer greater than two can be written as the sum of 3 primes."

Inquiry: In Inquiry we have been writing narrative stories about a leader of our choosing living during the times of World War Two for example: Hitler and the Blitzkreig. Now that everyone is finished we are adding things to our portfolio for our student led conferences at the end of the year.

I.C.T: In I.C.T we have been writing reflections about all the websites and software we have used over the year there are many websites Mr. Lowe has introduced us to. The website we are most familier with is Edu20, were Mr. Lowe sends us our homework and messages about what we will be doing each day.

Thanks G!

Mathletics weekly winners

Starting this week, we will be giving certificates out to the three pupils who participate in the most Mathletics activities over a 7 day period.

Our first winners who, altogether, took part in over 55 activities in 7 days are:

Mo., Sa. and Sj!

Well done! Keep up the fabulous effort and enjoy the certificates you were given in class!
Congratulations!
Mr.L